History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

What is the scent of water?""Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.

If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.

Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.